Nash summed up where Lakers are right now this way: "All is not lost." He said enthusiasm and camaraderie are ...positives for this team -- and in fact cited the "great attitude" as reason "we still have a chance to be a great team."

But Nash said even practice today here in January felt like training camp, with how much new material is being learned and the new connections between players still being made. Looking back at learning Mike Brown's system before adopting Mike D'Antoni's, Nash said: "We played a certain way for six weeks that doesn't translate at all to the way we're playing now."

I'm glad that Nash is optimistic. He is very right in some aspects. However I would figure that defensively their rotations would be better eventually especially given they had a defensive coach prior. But we'll see how we evolve

"Bryant had come to rage against the idea that Howard's clownish disposition could overtake the locker room, the Lakers' culture, and had warned Howard that he would never, ever let it happen."

Now that almost everyone in the Lakers are just starting to play together (except Blake obviously), Howard starting to become the Howard from Orlando, and Blake supposedly coming back mid-January, this is training camp, like Nash said.

From what I've seen, the Lakers are playing well. Defense needs to be worked on, though. Also, with the way the record is for the team, there is little room for error.

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"Because they fired Mike Brown, a month and a half of training and schemes that we went through was thrown away. So we need time to back in the swing of things in this system and having to learn a whole new way and whole new lineups which he(D'antoni) didn't have the benefit of a training camp or pre-season to iron out. But at the same time we need to realize that no team is gonna feel sorry for us either and I think we could have beaten either one."

Edited by Majesty, January 04, 2013 - 06:51 AM.

"Bryant had come to rage against the idea that Howard's clownish disposition could overtake the locker room, the Lakers' culture, and had warned Howard that he would never, ever let it happen."

Of course ESPN isn't going to give us this benefit of the doubt when reporting about the lakers woes, and no team is going to feel sorry for us, but us fans have to stay patient. We're like 8 games back from a top 3 seed and while that seems like a ton now, watch by the end of the season how many teams end of bunched up together.

I was looking at the schedules of some of the teams ahead of us and I predict we will be a 6th seed by Feb 6

i thought the mike dantoni offense could be learned in merely a couple hours? ahah idk but that's what i heard

I remember people saying D'antoni's offense would get picked up rather quickly as well, but the thing about that offense is its point guard oriented and well we lost our starterand his backup shortly after.

Now we have Nash back, but for some reason the pick and roll isn't working.

I remember people saying D'antoni's offense would get picked up rather quickly as well,but the thing about that offense is its point guard oriented and well we lost our starterand his backup shortly after.

Now we have Nash back, but for some reason the pick and roll isn't working.

It would take "nash" a couple of minutes.

And the pick and roll works a lot when our bigs are aggressive with it.

We lost our last game because both bigs weren't aggressive off pick and rolls which made Nash hesitant to pass to them, which is why we didn't run pick and roll much cause Gasol was hesitant to shoot on open opportunities and Howard was reluctant to score.

But we ran pick and roll consistently against the Warriors and the Knicks especially down the stretch where they couldn't stop us.

"Bryant had come to rage against the idea that Howard's clownish disposition could overtake the locker room, the Lakers' culture, and had warned Howard that he would never, ever let it happen."

Of course not. But that doesn't mean they're always wrong if they do something the fans don't want.

Hated for letting go of Shaq and bringing in OdomLoved for bringing in Ariza and Gasol within 2 yearsLoved for bringing in Chris PaulHated for the season that followed after it was vetoedLoved for bringing in Steve Nash and Dwight HowardHated for not hiring Phil Jackson.

Mitch and Buss deserve their own "love me or hate me" commercial like Kobe had.

"Bryant had come to rage against the idea that Howard's clownish disposition could overtake the locker room, the Lakers' culture, and had warned Howard that he would never, ever let it happen."